Primordial Violet Qi Has a Problem!

Zhou Jun paused for a moment. He narrowed his eyes, seeming to ponder some important question. After a while, he suddenly seemed to think of something. He gently nudged Di Kun beside him with his elbow and said, "Hey, do you think we could walk the path Hongjun walked all over again? After all, we already know how to walk the path he took—we could get ahead of him entirely! We might not be able to take it as far as he did, but for the whole Primordial Wilderness, it probably wouldn't do any harm. On the contrary, it might even bring some benefits."

After hearing Zhou Jun's words, Di Kun pondered for a moment before replying, "Mm, there is indeed a certain possibility. But everyone's Dao is unique—how could we help them attain the Dao? As the saying goes, 'A master leads you to the door; cultivation depends on the individual.' At most, we can give them a few pointers. Besides, we don't have anything like Primordial Violet Qi. Other than Hongjun, have you ever heard of anyone else possessing that stuff?"

Hearing this, Zhou Jun could not help feeling somewhat discouraged. He muttered, "Yeah, where exactly did this Primordial Violet Qi come from? Could it really have been nurtured by Heavenly Dao? And don't you think this thing looks a little like an earthworm? In those Primordial Wilderness novels, there's far too little description of it. Some say Hongjun became a Saint because Heavenly Dao bestowed Primordial Violet Qi upon him, while others say he gathered it from the chaos. I can understand there being few descriptions, but! He's the only one who has it, and no one else can produce it—doesn't that make no sense at all?"

When Di Kun heard Zhou Jun say this, a trace of doubt rose in his heart as well. He carefully turned Zhou Jun's words over in his mind and felt that something truly did seem off.

"It really is a little unreasonable," Di Kun murmured. "When Hongjun became a Saint, he said he used a strand of Primordial Violet Qi, but that was only his own claim. Who could prove it? Besides, when the Primordial Wilderness was opened, what we personally saw was only him taking away a fragment of the Creation Jade Disk. What's more, he was a reincarnated Chaos God or Demon. I find it hard to believe that Heavenly Dao would have no guard up against him. Therefore, this Primordial Violet Qi could not have been bestowed by Heavenly Dao."

"However, the legendary Primordial Violet Qi does indeed possess the ability to communicate with Heavenly Dao. That is beyond doubt. And it is said that those who obtain Primordial Violet Qi can become undying and indestructible, which makes people yearn for it and fear it all the more."

Just as Di Kun sank into thought, Zhou Jun suddenly interrupted him. "Undying and indestructible? I don't think so! Otherwise, why would something like the Saint Fall Altar exist? And don't you think the things Hongjun brought out are all extremely targeted? It's as though link after link had been prepared specifically for certain situations. If Primordial Violet Qi was bestowed by Heavenly Dao, then how do you explain the Saint Fall Altar? Aren't the two mutually contradictory? I..."

Zhou Jun's words were like a bolt of lightning tearing through the night sky, jolting Di Kun awake. He began to reexamine the treasures Hongjun had produced and the connections between them.

Zhou Jun was still speaking in a torrent when a flash of insight suddenly crossed his mind. As though something had struck him, he blurted out, "I think Primordial Violet Qi was refined by Hongjun!"

His voice echoed through the air, drawing Di Kun's attention. Di Kun shuddered violently, as though Zhou Jun's words had startled him.

Zhou Jun continued, "Back then, when we saw the fragments of the Creation Jade Disk, aside from the large ones, there were also several small ones. Maybe Hongjun collected those fragments and used them to refine Primordial Violet Qi?"

As Di Kun listened to Zhou Jun's analysis, his heart stirred as well. He felt that although the idea was somewhat bizarre, it seemed to have some merit.

"That really is possible!" Di Kun agreed. "And Hongjun's true form is an Innate Earthworm. According to our speculation, the method of Slaying the Three Corpses was originally something he comprehended from his own true form. Then it makes sense that he used Jade Disc Fragments together with his own fleshly body to refine Primordial Violet Qi!"

The more Di Kun spoke, the more reasonable he found this deduction. His eyes widened, and he seemed utterly astonished by his own discovery.

"In that case, Hongjun used his own fleshly body to entice all living beings between Heaven and Earth!" Di Kun concluded at last, his voice carrying a trace of disbelief.

Zhou Jun's face was full of shock as he exclaimed incredulously, "Heavens! Is this the scheming of the powerful? It's simply too unimaginable! Compared to that, the little calculations between us are as childish and laughable as children playing house! I suddenly feel so tiny, as though I've utterly disgraced all those mighty experts."

Di Kun took a deep breath, trying to calm himself before slowly saying, "You can't put it that way. After all, people capable of such deep planning and far-reaching foresight are still rare. If everyone possessed calculations that formidable, we would probably have long since been toyed with in the palm of their hands. We might not even realize that we were pieces on the board."

Hearing this, Zhou Jun hurriedly waved his hand to cut Di Kun off, saying with a terrified expression, "Don't! Don't say any more! You're giving me goosebumps! My heavens, think about it—those transmigrators in later generations who traveled to the Primordial Wilderness and spent every day fighting and killing, scrambling for fame and profit... how did they even survive? I seriously suspect that we didn't transmigrate into the same world as them at all! No, no, this place is far too terrifying! Author! Hurry up and switch us to another world! I want to go to a low-martial Primordial Wilderness world—this place is genuinely too scary!"

Just then, the author, who was holding his phone and typing with complete concentration, happened to glance at these words. He instinctively rubbed his nose, cleared his throat, and muttered softly, "I'd like to switch you to another world too, but if you all run away, how am I supposed to keep writing this story? I'm still counting on this to earn a little money, so just bear with it for a while."

With that, the author helplessly shook his head and lowered it again to continue writing.

However, Zhou Jun suddenly cursed from the side. "Damn it!" He abruptly raised a middle finger and pointed it straight at the sky, as though he wanted to pierce the endless firmament.

But Zhou Jun quickly realized he had lost his composure. He hurriedly withdrew his finger, an awkward smile appearing on his face as he tried to ease the tense atmosphere with a joke.

"Haha, just kidding! But if things really are as I said, then didn't Hongjun bestow Primordial Violet Qi by exploiting all living beings' greedy desire to attain the Dao? And this Primordial Violet Qi was refined from his own fleshly body! No wonder so many novels later said there was something wrong with Primordial Violet Qi! In that case, perhaps the six Saints not appearing in the Primordial Wilderness later wasn't Hongjun's order at all, but one of his carefully laid schemes! Maybe he wanted to refine those six Saints away!"

After following Zhou Jun's line of thought for a while, Di Kun slowly said, "The remaining fragment of Primordial Violet Qi created the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. That truly is a puzzling matter. Why use Hongyun's life in exchange for that strand of Primordial Violet Qi? And Fuxi, Black Tortoise, and Hongyun all reincarnated into the human race. Was that truly the decree of fate? Could it be that the human race is the protagonist of Heaven and Earth?"

Upon hearing Di Kun's words, Zhou Jun also could not help developing some doubts. He said, "Do you think Fuxi truly needed to reincarnate into the human race in order to create the Eight Trigrams? And he and Nuwa are one yin and one yang, one male and one female—there really is something strange about that. A lone yin cannot give birth, and a lone yang cannot grow; there should be a relationship of yin and yang transforming into each other between them. They say yin and yang create all things—could Nuwa only create the human race? Or did Fuxi create the Eight Trigrams to assist Nuwa in creating humans, or perhaps other races? Just like the creatures we wish to create, would we create only one kind? The reason we have kept the human race without creating it is because fate is involved, but after Nuwa created humans, that was the end of it. Her Dao should have been the Great Dao of Creation, yet she seemed to abandon that Dao and leave it behind. Doesn't that make one suspicious?"